Mr. Abuga Pele, National Coordinator of National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), on Wednesday said it was implementing exit plans in collaboration with relevant ministries and agencies to ensure that beneficiaries were well structurally integrated into meaningful life.
He explained that a comprehensive exit plan had been developed for the first batch of beneficiaries as well as subsequent ones to be recruited in future.
Mr. Pele who was addressing a press conference on the exit plans for the various modules under the NYEP in Accra said a bill would soon be placed in Parliament known as the NYEP Bill to provide real meaning to youth employment in Ghana.
The exit plans for the modules to be implemented this month include the Health Extension Work (HEW), Community Education and Teaching Assistants (CETA) and the Community Protection Assistants (CPA).
Mr. Pele explained that the NYEP in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and its agencies had thoroughly discussed and would absorb 30 per cent of the beneficiaries into Diploma and Certificate courses to upgrade them.
He said out of this number, those who had the requisite qualifications would be admitted to undertake diploma courses while those without the
requisite qualification but have exhibited competence would be admitted into certificate courses.
Mr. Pele said 50 per cent of HEW beneficiaries would be absorbed directly into the Ghana Health Service as Ward Assistants while another 10 per cent would be absorbed by private health institutions.
He said the remaining 10 per cent who could not undertake any course would be given the priority in the Trades and Vocation module of the NYEP.
Mr. Pele explained that the Ministry of Education (MoE) had also agreed to absorb the CETA into Colleges of Education, Untrained Teacher Diploma in Basic Education (UTDBE), Pupil Teacher recruitment, Technical and Vocational
Institutions for Apprenticeship as well as private institutions to recruit the beneficiaries.
He said those who could not be absorbed by the MoE would be given priority under the trades and vocation module of NYEP.
Mr. Pele announced that the police administration had screened and selected from the Community Protection Assistants some youth who had exhibited responsible behaviour character and had the minimum qualification for subsequent enlistment into the Ghana Police Service.
He said the rest would be absorbed into the private security services across the country and those not interested in the private securities would be enrolled into the Trades and Vocations module.
Mr. Pele said all the youths under the Interns module who had completed the two year tenure by the end of January 2010 would be absorbed by their respective organisations while the rest were being encouraged to re-apply
for consideration.
He urged the public not to impute partisan politics in the exit plan because the beneficiaries did not align themselves to any political party.